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Click through to any public Twitter profile from your timeline or through a Twitter search and you can see how many followers the account currently has -- the figure appears underneath the header photo with the "Followers" label. You can also click on this number or on the "Followers" link to the left to see each follower listed individually.

Public and Protected Accounts

A Twitter account can be set as Public or Protected by its owner -- in the latter case, followers must be approved before they can see an account's tweets. The number of followers for every Twitter account (whether public or protected) is always visible on the Profile page, even to those who aren't logged in to Twitter. If you're viewing a public Twitter profile, you can click through to see the full list of followers, as long as you're logged into the social network; if you're viewing a protected Twitter profile, the followers list is only available if you're also a follower.

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